When
Enough Detox Is Enough
by: William Wong, N.D., Ph.D., Member
World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame

There is a philosophical belief in the
natural health world that most of the
disease conditions faced by patients
today are created by the toxic environment
in which we live. To begin the process
of healing, these practitioners take
their patients through detoxifying
therapies. If the disease issue persists
after the detox these docs, nutritionists
and natural healers insist that further
detoxification is needed. If the condition
continues still further then the patient
needs more detox. The thinking is that
once the body is fully detoxified then
full radiant health will return of
its own accord because the toxicity
was the root cause of what ever condition
was ailing the patient.

Just
in the telling of this philosophy so
far we can begin to see its fallacies
and limitations and begin to fathom
the limited thinking of those whose
sole means of dealing with disease-states
is detox. There comes a point when
the detoxification is done that the
actual disease issues must be looked
at and dealt with so their true causative
issues be addressed. Detoxification
IS NOT the do-all end-all of healing.
Yes, removing the “terrain” is
the foundation of a healthy body. Yes,
detox can help the body work closer
to the way is should. But, it is a
fallacy that detox alone will restore
the body to full health. In the 26
years I’ve been a Naturopath
I’ve seen detoxification be done
with patients repeatedly one program
oral, IV and rectal one after the other,
after the other and after the other.
In many cases the patients felt considerably
better after the detox or series of
detox’s. But in just as many
cases the detox did nothing to relieve
the disease state. Why? It’s
simple; issues of hormones, allergies,
bacteria, funguses, hypo kinesis (lack
of movement) and viruses were simply
not addressed by the detox! It was
expected by the practitioners that
the detox would be the do-all end-all
of the healing process. This is limited,
foolish and physiologically unreasonable
thinking. This is thinking limited
by the walls of their own philosophy!

If we
are truly going to be WHOLEistic in our
outlook and in our practices to restore
health then the detox processes we have
our patients do or which we undergo must
be linked to concurrent programs of dealing
with the other issues involved with the
disease state. The hormone imbalance,
nutritional deficiencies, the viruses,
the bacteria, the visceral dysfunction,
the lack of muscle strength in the smooth
and striated muscle (internal organ muscle
and skeletal movement muscle), and any
and all of the other issues involved
with the disease state need to be addressed
at the same time as the detox. This silly
and circular process of one detox after
another leading nowhere but to “another
and more effective detox” has to
stop. The thinking that the detox will “do
it all” needs to be dashed into
the trash heap of medical thinking to
lay along side the use of mercury as
an anti bacterial and the cholesterol
theory of heart disease. Nuff Said.

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